Jordan, Jesse, GO! - Photocopy Money, with Dan Mintz

Episode Date: June 18, 2026

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Give a little time for the child within you. Don't be afraid to be young and free. Under the locks and throw away the keys and take off your shoes and sucks and run you. It's Jordan Jesse Go. I am Jesse Thorne America's Radio, sweetheart. Jordan Morris, it's happening again. What's it? Jordan! It's happening again.

Jordan, I'm worried about you, buddy. Yeah. You sound down. What's happening again? Well, okay. So, I'll paint people a picture. Okay, great. The Bob Ross of podcasting.

Thank you. Yes. I'm going to make you some happy little trees with my mouth and then appear on a lot of bad merchandise because I died and I think my family was full of leeches. I don't know. That's my explanation for why all that Bob Ross merchandise popped up after he died. Maybe Bob Rob's his family is lovely. I don't know.

Anyway, I'm painting a picture. Happy mouth trees. Here's what I'm doing. My beard's gotten long. Yeah. I, my, my physique is on the chunkier side right now. Listen, I know I look good. Okay.

No need to slide into my DMs telling me how good I look. I know I look good. But Jordan, you don't need to, you need to tell people not to slide into your DMs because your DMs, I get DMs about how good you look. Sure. Yeah, I know. And by the way, they're open, but don't slide in there. Yeah.

Don't slide in there. Okay. you know, on the chunk of years. So, you know, uh... Well, daddy thick. I would say daddy. I would say daddy's, daddy's been traveling a little bit. Daddy's having a hard time getting to the pool, you know.

I would say daddy looks thick. Thank you. So because of that, because of the long beard and the, you know... Yeah, your beard longer than mine now. I've been going with a short beard, really, and your beard is a little longer. Beard's long. And so men between 35 and 60 are now coming up to me in public. to tell me I look like Zach Galaphanakis.

Again? Yeah. Again? Constantly. Jesus. Couple times a day. Couple times a day. Now, to just establish here some context.

Some context. First of all, Zach is a very handsome man. Of course, great looking guy. We all agree Zach is a handsome man. Good looking guy. And a nice man, talented, talented like crazy. Brilliant. Yeah.

Deserves all of the fame he's gotten. This is not an anti-Galephanacus podcast. Watch his new gardening show. I really love it. It's just him talking to children about different plants. It's great. So this is just happening a lot. And I think it's like,

it's a lot of, like, guys in their 50s and 60s. And I think that's just because the hangover is the last movie they enjoyed. Yeah. And these, and like people who, for a movie that was pretty funny and contained some really talented people. Sure.

like Zach and Ed Helms and so forth, the hangover, somebody that recognized you from it, would be an awful person. So it's, it's, yeah, it's not a lot of alt comedy fans. Yeah. It's a lot of like, nobody's, nobody, nobody says, aren't you Zach Alvinakis from that late night talk show on VH1? Right, yes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're Zach Alvinakis. You did a voice in the charming stop motion animated The Missing Link. Yeah. No, I say. I'm not. No. And it's rarely argue him.

It's like, I, I, I, you look, you look, did you know, you look like him? I'm a stranger. Yeah. And I, you know, I think I'm, I'm annoyed for many reasons. It's, you know, one, like, yeah, don't tell people who they look like. You know, the rule that we have on the program, I'm going to take this opportunity to say it, is you can tell somebody they look like someone if that person is famous for being attractive. Right.

So they can't just be famous and attractive because that lets in too many people. And yeah, so there's that. It has to be fucking Brad Pitt. Sure. And so there's that. And then there's also just a kind of, what do you want for me in this moment? What do you, do you want me to do an impression? It kind of feels like dance monkey, you know?

It kind of feels like you have a thing that you're going to do. Well, maybe they recognize you as being the man of a thousand faces. Sure. Yes. You're known as the hero with a thousand faces, right? Yes, to my good friend Joseph Campbell, I think. Yes. That's why George Lucas and I get along so famously.

Yep, yep, yep. Good, good, good. I love you, George. I'll see you at the winery. Our show makes sense, and it's a good show. Go ahead. It's a good show, I'm good. So, yeah, so this is just, yeah, there's a little like, what do you want from this interaction, man?

Right, right. And so I usually don't react that good when people do it. I try and, you know, I don't, I just don't know what else to do other than kind of roll my eyes and go like, yeah, I get that. So I'm at the airport. 7 a.m. flight, so this is around 6.15. I'm like airport. mad. I'm like, I have a 7 a.m. flight. I had to check a bag. I've been here since 5.30 airport mad. Yeah. Just sitting at the airport waiting to get on. And guy comes up to me,

hey, did you know you look like, like, I'm like, Jack Elfnack's. And I kind of roll my eyes at him. And he's like, oh. And so he, and to his credit, he understood I was annoyed, which is something these people do not usually do. Right. That he was able to read my expression. And you're generous to a fault with people. I think we've heard on the program the list of things that bothers you about strangers on the street

has been fully explicated on this is a short list and Jordan is a generous man in public. Thank you. And in private. Sure. And in bed. Yes. And the shower. I'm a goddamn prince in the shower.

So this guy And so he sees me Rollins like, oh, he's like, oh, do you not love that? And I was like, eh, you know, I usually, yeah, when the beard gets too long, I usually, when this happens and I know it's time to cut the beard. And I promise this is what he said to me.

Jesse, I promise this is what he, I'm not, I promise this is what he said. Hold on, Jordan. I'm here, I'm Pinky promise. We're doing it. I know people aren't watching. We actually touched pinkies. Dan, can you confirm that for us?

Oh, am I allowed to talk? Not yet. You're allowed to confirm the promise and then you can talk. He said, I know how you feel. I get Ryan Gosling all the time and I don't see it. Fuck you. I get Ryan Gosling all the time. All the time.

And I don't see it. Anyway, it's happening again. I'm going to go for a beard trim tomorrow. If I could, if, if, if there's anybody out there listening to this, I mean, it seems unlikely. But if there is anybody out there listening to this. Oh, they're carving this onto a gold record and putting it on a, on a satellite? Yeah. My request to you is just go ahead and send me a picture of any bald guy with a beard and say it's a picture of me.

There's you. Send that to me on the internet. I'll love it. I'll love it. We would love it. Our guest on the, Jordan, I have a birthday gift for you, but I'm going to introduce, I'm going to introduce our guest. Because we have an august guest. Yeah, this is fun.

This guy is, you probably know him for looking like Ryan Gosling. He says he doesn't see it. Besides that, you know him, of course, from Bob's Burgers. And you know him as one of the funniest stand-up comics that there is. One of the great joke writers of our time, Jordan. He has a brand new comedy special that is called Well-Rounded Entertainer, Mr. Dan Mintz. You're so kind. Those are such kind words.

Thank you. And I mean them very sincerely. Now, I apologize, Dan, that I have brought you onto the program just in time to give my friend Jordan a gift. And I have no gift. I have no gift for you, Dan. Well, I have a gift for you. Oh, really? I'll just, if you don't have it for me, I'll, you're like, let me.

Jesse's doing that thing where you crank up your middle finger like it's a... Jordan, here's your birthday gift. Oh, my gosh. It's been around the office for a long time. Now, I know what you're thinking. Jesse, that brown paper bag looks like. It's what your dinner delivery came in. Yes, that's correct.

I wasn't going to get involved in a whole thing fucking wrapping it. Jesse, half a Quiznos? Wow, you shouldn't have. This is great. Oh, my gosh. It's a gray garment of some sort. Oh, it's a T-shirt.

Oh, it's a tank top featuring the garbage ape. From Heathcliff. My favorite non-Heathcliff character from Heathcliff. Thank you, Jesse. It's the garbage ape, Jordan. This is really great, Dan. show it to you. That actually, that looks really good.

Thank you, Jesse. This is lovely. You're welcome. Happy birthday. I really love it and I will wear it proudly. Well, it's summertime. I mean, as we record this, we're sliding into the month of June. And that is like when summertime behaviors begin.

So I think it's a perfect question for us to start by, to ask Dan. Yeah. To what extent are you, Dan, a summer boy? Well, you know, I grew up in Alaska where summer is very beloved. I was going to say, does that like really raise the stakes on summer? It's not as big of a deal in L.A. I feel like. I mean, that's the... I was kind of surprised moving here that it actually does, the temperature does change over the year. It does a little bit.

Even though you'd think it wouldn't. But I like summer. as a homeowner, I'm very, get very stressed about rain. Oh. And I'd love that for like six months, I just don't have to think about it. Do you have roof problems? I mean, we don't currently have a roof problem, which is nice. But we have, we've always had various. Like our house weirdly has like a basement, which is rare in L.A.,

so we have to worry about water getting in, and it just... Molds. Is that an issue? Mold. I mean, you always wonder, you never know. Yeah. There's going to be, yeah, it just, you know, it just always had hypochondria and then when you buy a house, it extends to your house. What are this top summer activities of childhood in Alaska? I mean, for childhood, I mean, as an adult, as an adult, there's a lot of very fun things to do that would be kind of boring as a kid. What are you talking about, porno theater?

They might, I don't know if they have that there, but it's, yeah, like hiking and fishing and stuff. that was very boring as a kid is very fun to do as an adult and you go back. Do you make it back to Alaska much? Do you still have family there? Yeah, my parents are still there. So I still go, yeah. I've been to Alaska once, and it was a wonderful experience. It was very magical. I had a buddy who moved up there. I went to visit him and his kids, and we had a lovely time. And just every building is a brewery, basically. And there's miles between them, but you go from one brewery, you drive in the car across, you know, beautiful.

beautiful, beautiful trees and then another brewery. I don't remember being like that when I live there, but I'm not surprised if it's gone in that direction since then. I gave up my career as a doctor in New York City to move to Sicily, Alaska for a little while. Now, hold on, Jesse. Did you get conked by a coconut while watching Northern Exposure again? Oh, now that you mention it, things are a little hazy. He loves to watch Northern Exposure under the old coconut tree.

boy, does he ever? I love those nuts. Both the nuts of the town of Sicily, Alaska. And the coconuts. They come out of the coconut tree. They come out of the coconut tree. Yeah, as a Jew from Alaska, that like took my sitcom idea

before I was even. Oh, I'm sorry to get that. That's a good point. Have they talked to you about rebooting it? Those are, oh yeah, I guess I'd be the first person they'd come to. Let me ask you this. What was the hunky radio host like in York?

small town. I don't remember that part. I don't really remember anything about the show either. Are you a full-scale outdoorsman as an adult man? I liked it. Not really, like I said, we're from Alaska, but our family is Jewish, so we're athletic by Jewish standards, but not by Alaska standards. But yeah, I like hiking and skiing and, I guess, in theory camping,

although I don't actually like that. Yeah, camping is, I've learned mostly from doing the Judge John Hodgman podcast and having a few camping related things on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. Like, I think the campers in my family are on my wife's side of the family. They're from Marin County. And my brother-in-law was a climbing ranger at Yosemite. So, like, they're, like, backpackers. Yeah. Like, they, like, put on, they have special stuff that they put in a special business.

bag with the kids and they go to the middle of nowhere and, you know, fight bears. Yeah. And then there's this other category of camping that I've learned about through Judge John Hodgeman, which is where you like not only fill an entire vehicle, but a second vehicle with all the items in your home and then just bring them to a, like a, I mean, it's a parking lot, but it's a parking lot with like wood chips instead of concrete. Yeah. And just you just fucking spend the whole time setting shit up.

Yeah. Like setting up a tent city. And then at the end, you're like, great, we set it up. Down it goes. Yeah. I mean, I have issues with both kinds. I kind of loved backpacking and backcountry high camping as a kid. Like my parents would take me on some cool trips when I was a kid who went down the Yukon.

And then as an adult, I just realized there's so much prep work. that goes into that, and also just living in California, you have to drive farther and there's your places to go. But then, like, the kind of car camping, I just feel, I don't know, I just feel there's no privacy, and I just feel like it's kind of the worst of both worlds to me. I don't know. It's something that is a, that I really like in theory, but I don't like it all in practice. I'll tell you what appeals to me. It's not the natural world, which substantially does not appeal to me. However, the rise of like equipment for camping and the rise of endless e-commerce websites. E-commerce websites that sell every product ever mean that no matter what car you have, you can buy an air

mattress that is the exact size and shape of the back of your car. And like I drive a hatchback. and my back seats go down flat. And I've never had a reason to or an interest in sleeping in my car, but the idea of having an inflatable mattress that perfectly fits the shape of the back. It's so compelling to me. God, I'd love that. Pre-show, everybody was telling me how great my T-shirt was. Yeah, it's a really nice T-shirt.

Thank you. It's for a Cat Rescue called Cat Town. and it was this thing where someone brought it to me at a at a comicod. No, I'm a big cat guy. They gave me this shirt. It's great. I love it. It made its way into the rotation.

He likes small cats, too. Okay. Jesse, shut up. What did I say about that? It's okay. I'm not really mad. He's not really mad. You kind of look like Zach Elfinacus.

I'm mad, Jordan. Okay. It's just because I have this baby strap to my front. And, you know, it was nice. It was nice to get this gift, and it's great that it's, you know, made its way into the rotation like it has. And I thought to myself, I bet people bring fucking Dan Mints stuff at cons. Oh, wow. Yeah.

Do you get a lot of, like, handicrafts and gifts and things when you do that sort of thing? You know, I never get T-shirts. I would love to get a cat T-shirt. I don't have a cat, but it looks good. Yeah. But yeah, all kinds of art and stuff. And usually I can fit it in my suitcase going home. That's always the stressful part.

That is always nice. I feel terrible leaving something that someone made. Like, Dan, I made you the set of encyclopedias. Do you have anything that's like in your home or that's like become a decoration that someone made for you because... I mean, I feel like they're all in my home because I don't have, I don't know how to like decorate. I mean, I guess I do live with a, wife and kids, so there is stuff, other stuff on the wall. But there's always space for me to put something up. It's all just macaroni art of your character from Bob's program. But yeah, it's always,

I mean, and just not just from fans, but from like the show, Benobox, there's always artists. There's always so excited to make something that they're always giving ways. Yeah, and I think when you work in animation, all of your co-workers are crafty nerds. So you get a lot of that kind of thing. Yeah. Animation people, lovely. Lovely to work in an industry that's mostly crafty nerds. Have you gotten crafty nerds things from animation people? I have.

Yeah, I'm racking my brain to think of one, but that is a lovely part of working in animation. It's like the nice nerds that work in it. As you know, I was the star of Archer, television show Archer. Yeah, star is something you could say about any performer. Yeah, especially one with Star Power. Sure. And they sent me, like, they made an animation art of my character with the rest of the cast of Archer. And I was like, on the one hand, this is not normally the kind of thing I would ever put on my wall in a million, even though Archer, my favorite show, et cetera.

But then it was like, but that's me on Archer. I know. I got to put that in a frame and put it on my wall. wall. Nice. Yeah, I mean, I remember when our daughter was born, they made, they gave us as a gift as a painting of of my son, who was like two at the time,

as Gene holding a baby Tina as my daughter. Adorable. That was very cool. We definitely still have that. That's really, really cool. That's very adorable. I mean, the audience of Bob's Burgers, I was telling Dan before the show, like, when we do a Judge John Hodgman tour,

there are people who have bought VIP tickets waited in line to meet us and want to talk to us about Bob's burgers. It's so important to people. On merit, it's a wonderful program. But yes, that depth of commitment is truly special. And it's also a networked television show.

There's only like six of those left. The other five are all. all created by Taylor Sheridan. I wonder what it would be like if Taylor Sheridan created Bob's Burgers. Hmm. And here's where we set up a sketch dance. So we're all... Just so you know, we're sending up a sketch that we already wrote.

Pause the recording so we can write it, Christian. I wish I knew more about Taylor Sheridan to have some polls for this. But I got Yellowstone. Yellowstone, yeah. These are masculine kind of Heartland-coated shows. I haven't watched these shows. However, in my capacity as a coastal elitist, I did hear a fresh air review of one of them. Sure.

I think I heard about them on the Slate Culture Gab Fest. Yeah. So, you know. And I think one going to say it was David B. and Cooley was doing the review on fresh air. I'm not going to, don't hold me to that. And it was a generally positive review. It was for like the new one that's got Melanie Griffith. And I'm going to say Kurt Russell.

And in this review, they played a. scene from the show. And it was just two people talking about how dangerous it is in New York now. It was just like, ah, come on. Dan, have you ever been a New York guy? You know, I've been, I've lived there for a few months at a time, a few times. I love it. I, I, East Coast feels like a foreign country to me. Like, I think it would be hard to live there. I mean, you live, you were born and raised in what is essentially a foreign country in Alaska. Well, yeah, but I feel like that I'm also, like, L.A. does feel like it's a similar vibe. Have you ever done the Alaska comedy, like, tours that comics do?

I remember one time our friend Chris Fairbanks, I think, was the one who was talking about. Yeah. He, like, got booked on a 10-date Alaska tour that paid pretty well and was a blast. Yeah. It sounds really cool. I've never been asked to do it. I feel like the, I think the tour, they go to the kind of bar in town that has the comedy shows. And I feel like, I just feel like when I think about when I'm into that bar, I would have trouble.

It's kind of a low-energy comic, owning that room. So it's just going to be drunk fur travelers, right? That's who. Maybe I'm being too, I don't know. I haven't spent a lot of time in that bar, so maybe I'm prejudging it. What would your, like, local pandering material be about? You know, I've done stand-up twice there, and I, yeah, I remember not really feeling like I really knew how to connect with the audience that well. Really?

I went up. Well, I did one. I went up. I just was up there with my wife. I think it was before she was my wife, but she's a comedian. And so we both, she convinced me to like go to like the, an open mic there. And I had in my head that people would be like, oh, wow, it's like an actual like. Is it okay for us to say Judy Tunuta?

Yes. Yeah, Judy and I went out. And I had this idea in my head like, oh, you know, I'm like the guy. I think this was before I had done Bob's or much, but it was like, just like I'm like a guy that like for comic from LA. Like I'm like a big time comic. Right. I just, and I just like, no one, I got no response. No one cared.

No one knew I was. And then my Margie, Judy Tanuda, my wife killed. And then I went back later for a show that was a friend from high school, like, it was like a benefit. I did a couple nights before. And that was pretty good. It was just, it was like the early audience was literally all like my mom's friends. It was a little bit, it was a little bit, the late show I feel like was better. It was a little bit of too many of my mom's friends in the audience to...

Did they like it? Do they have a good time? I think they had a pretty good time. I mean, it's like you were describing earlier at the show, you saw me with where you felt like the audience didn't love some of the darker stuff, and I definitely feel like it was that kind of... Yeah, I mean, Dan is, for folks who haven't seen Dan do comedy, I mean, it is joke after joke after joke after joke.

And I saw Dan perform opening for Kristen Schumedy. Shaw's play slash one woman half another character show in Los Angeles. And the audience was, I mean, you can imagine who comes out to the Kristen Schall show. Yes. Oh, it was just fucking jam-packed full of bright-eyed librarians and people who'd made their own clothes. Just a vibrant, delightful scene of sweet weirdos. and Dan is very committed to the writing of jokes, I would say, because he's a fucking genius at it.

You're very kind, thank you. And I think that sometimes a comic who is really great at writing jokes will find themselves wandering up to a cliff, looking at it and thinking, I wonder if I could write a joke that would allow me to walk six inches past the edge of this clip. Yeah, Dan had a couple of dark jokes. No offensive jokes, but like some intense, some emotionally intense jokes that the

Bob's Berger's crowd may not have been prepared for. You're telling me that for sure. I don't remember it like that, but I trust you, I believe you. I think maybe you were sitting on the part of the audience. Like someone, I think, fully went, oh, no. Heavens. Yeah, there's a pearl clutching section where Jesse usually sits And that's where people

Well, the otherwise The fucking temptation is too great for me to steal people's pearls That's true Okay, listen, we should probably hide our pearls Yeah Let's do that, take a little break And then we'll come back for support Yeah, we'll be back in just a second on Jordan, Jessica

It's Jordan Jesse Goh I am Jesse Thorne America's radio sweetheart Jordan Morris boy, detective You know, Jordan, every episode of Jordan Jesse Go is brought to our listeners by our listeners, specifically the member portion of our listeners. Folks will go to maximum fun.org slash join. Hey, pals, Jordan here with a little bonus plug. The good people at Marvel Comics have just announced the Amazing Venom, the new miniseries from me and artist Luke Ross. If you want to pre-order all five issues signed by me and mailed to you, just visit bit.

dot l y slash goo friends that's bit dot l y slash goo friends these signed sets are limited so pre-order now so you don't miss out on this fantastic buddy comedy slash galactic road trip through the marvel universe okay back to the show la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la It's Jordan Jesse Go. I'm Jesse Thorne, America's Radio Sweetheart. Jordan Morris, boy detective. I'm Dan Mintz, America's regular non-radio sweetheart. I mean, there's no question about that. I'm the sweetheart in a very narrow context. Everybody fucking loves Mintz.

Everything other than radio. There's no contest. I'm the king of a dying medium. There's no question. People love Dan in the world of plays. comics strips magazine construction sites

like road grading sure kind of oh have you alienated some people feedback on that oh okay a little lumpy

on the old Rotorannies Dan I have a Alaska question for you yes you're headed home to Alaska you're headed home to Fairbanks Alaska Anchorage

Anchorage Alaska Sicily Alaska what is the food you're looking forward to eating in Anchorage, Alaska? Oh, wow. I mean, I guess I don't even eat out that much because I stay with my parents. There's not like a special thing. You're not like, oh, we've got to go to the... I mean, there's a very famous, always crowded.

I assume it's still there and still crowded. The Moose's Tooth is like the very famous, like, pizza restaurant that is, I justify it. I believe good. So I'd like to go there, except... And then, yeah, I mean, like, I feel like any restaurant from when I was growing up there is gone. And there's not like a, oh, I got to get some real Alaska salmon snickers. Oh, yeah. I mean, for Alaska cuisine, I mean, I guess there would just be various kinds of seafood, unless you were, like, hunting for a moose.

But, yeah. Right. And snow, of course, and fulls of snow. I have been hunting for a moose for fucking years. I have not found any. I feel like no matter where I look. Well, you need to go past Cleddale, Jeff. He's looking around Glendale.

What are you going to go? Santa Clarita, Jordan? It's a good place to start. I'm not going to go to Santa Clarita. South Pasadena. Maybe San Pedro down by the docks. I don't know. Maybe.

You're not going to go out past Glendale? I don't know. I'll go to Glendale. Glendale, California? Sure. Yeah, that's far enough. Good enough. If you know, see a moose, you can get a nice kebab.

Yeah, get a cabob. Get some Armenian and get a nice, yeah. That'd be a good thing to get in Glendale. Jordan, we have a call this week. This is, from what Christian is described to me, this lies on the moment of shame momentous occasion continuum. Okay. Is not shame a spectrum?

That's a wonderful point. A lot of people would say that if you buy you, your first home, but then you call in to Jordan Jesse, go about it. That's fundamentally shameful. Right, sure. Let's take a listen. Hey, Jordan, Jesse, and guest, this is Joe in Grand Rapids, Michigan, calling with a new entry in your ongoing series, awkward interactions brought on by JJGo merch. My wife Alexis and I were recently on a romantic weekend getaway in lovely Northport, Michigan. We were actually both accidentally wearing Max Fun t-shirts. She was wearing a Stop Podcasting Yourself shirt.

And I was wearing one of the now classic Jordan Jesse Go dinosaur shirts, which Alexis had actually bought me. We were standing outside a restaurant there in lovely Northport waiting to be seated. And this young gentleman, I'm going to guess he was maybe early 20s, walked up and said, hey, I like your shirt. And I said, oh, that's cool. you a fan? And he gave me kind of a blank stare. And I said, oh, did you just mean because of the dinosaur? And he said, yeah, I mean, what's that about? What would I be a fan of? And I said, oh, it's from a

podcast. At which point I pointed to the text below the dinosaur that says Jordan Jesse go. And he just said, oh, well, what's that podcast about? I honestly had no idea how to even begin to explain your podcast as somebody who wasn't familiar. So. I said that it's technically an interview podcast, but it's mostly two college friends, kind of being delightful dingleberries together. But yeah, very awkward interaction. Yeah, love you guys and keep doing what you're doing. And bye.

If supporting our program is cost you personally. Give us a call to zero six, nine, for fun. A couple of observations. Strong call, I want to say. Yeah. strong call. This fellow's voice sounds like a S&L character from the 70s your dad loves and tries to do an impression of.

Oh my God, yes. The Michiganders. Sure, yeah. And his famous catchphrase, like, don't go out there. And then your dad says it and like, you know, you don't know. Yeah, you didn't see it. Don't go out there. And it's before YouTube.

Right. Yeah. He can't just show it to you. Sure. It was very authentic. and it really made me totally rethink

what this show is. Yeah. Like that's like your fan. Well, I think it really like it drove home to me the kind of joie de vivre that animates the Jordan

Jesse Goe audience. Like I think all of America's 50 states, including the non-contiguous ones, Daniel, have people in them who have wives named Mimi. Was that what the wife was named? I'm going to say your name was.

My way? No, no. The me, the wife that was wearing the stop podcasting yourself t-shirt. Oh. The wife from the call. I don't know if we're still rolling with name starts is Margie. That's why it sounded like you're trying to say Margie, but forgot. And we're not doing the bit anymore where you're married to accordion comedic, comedian

I took it too far. No, no. No, I think you did a wonderful job with it. You guys handed it and it was a lot of fun. No, it was really fun. I just didn't know if we were still doing it. Yeah. Judy Tune is still fun to say.

Yeah. But I think there is a certain flavor that can be brought to all of the regional manners of speech of America that can mark you as a potential George Jessica fan. Agreed. I would say, right? Yeah. And it's something else that I like about this. Dan, a lot of times people will call in. about times when they failed to recommend the show to people.

Them just bailing on talking about the show to anyone in the real world. This guy gave it a shot. Yeah. He tried. And the fact that the guy was confused is our fault for not doing a better show. Yeah. Okay. Well, I have a question.

Yeah. Is it possible that what we should be doing is providing literature that would help our audience explain, sort of like when you're, you work in the phone bank for a presidential campaign. Right. Or you are dialing for dollars on your university campus. You've got to call alumni and ask them for donations. Sure.

We just give people a little script what to say about Jordan Jesse Goh that would maximize the chances that the person you're talking to would make a donation to their all alma mater. Yeah, I mean, I think that'd be great for us. Maybe we can do them in the style of those little, like, you know, Bible comics that they give you. Yeah. Our audience, I don't think our audience is going to want to deal with a whole block of text. Give them a few.

A few pictures in there. It's an extremely uninformative name. Yeah. Like, even if it was literally just Jordan and Jesse, then, oh, that's the two guys. Where is? It's confusing. It's especially, I think, uninformative when you consider what an informative show is. is. Yeah. I mean, I think people learn so much. Yeah. You don't want to waste any information

on the name. It's all got to go on the show. I mean, one of the biggest problems, I think, for people explaining the show is that they've learned so much through doing Jordan Jesse, listening to Jordan Jesse Go that they can no longer relate to a person who basically doesn't know anything because they don't listen to Jordan Jesse Go. Like, the difference is so vast that it's like in a science fiction story when one group of people get super brains and they can't talk to the regular people anymore just because you learn so much listening to our show.

It's like the son trying to talk to a dog. It's like the son trying to talk to a dog. Yeah. And when we say it's like the sun, I mean, you know, you know what it's like. Okay, all right. You know what it's like. I mean, Jordan, you have a son, you have a son, right?

I don't have a son. Dan, Jesse's setting me up to do a catchphrase that I do. Oh, your son, like S-O-N. Yeah, he's that, so he, I don't have kids, but I'm working on it. So, Jesse, and I think the audience probably wants me to say. Yeah. Got to get a son. I'm working on.

There he goes. He said it, Dan. He said, applaud, Dan. I don't know. Oh, yeah. Don't go out there now. Don't go out there. I thought it was S-U-N, the sun talking to a dog.

I think I twisted it. I thought it was the son talking to a dog, but then I twisted it to force Jordan to say that he's got to get a dog. They're both great. Like the Sundine, the S-U-N is like so surreal and like beautiful. Thank you. And then the S-O-N actually makes sense. Right.

Because it's like, oh, this happened. And you had to explain to your son why the dog couldn't understand it. Right, right. Yeah. So I think you, I mean, yeah, beautiful points all around. And I think the audience is clear on what happened now. Yeah. I have a question for Dan Mintz.

Sure. If someone was asking you, what kind of podcast did you just go on? Would you say? I would say NPR adjacent. NPR adjacent. I think this is. I like that. Honestly, I'll fucking take it.

I will take it. I got my own NPR show. That makes this show NPR adjacent. you. We've been friends a long time. If you didn't, I would still say that. Yeah, I mean, would it be just as accurate to call it Teen Titans Go adjacent? Sure.

Yeah, Jordan works on Teen Titans Go sometimes. Spider-Man adjacent. Yeah, you got to go right those Spider-Man comic books. Archie friends adjacent. Yeah. Is that the Archie friends? Yeah, I just call Arch. Say Archie, but they are friends.

Dan? What's your favorite? member of the Bazooka Joe game. I'm sorry, I don't know what that is. God damn it. I mean,

I know they have jokes on the inside. There's a cartoon strip that only exists within the world of Bazooka Joe bubble down. The correct answer is always Mort.

Okay. You can just say that's more. I don't know that I know and why I think Bazooka Joe is a guy. There's a different gum with a joke on the inside. You'd have to be

Laffy Taffy? Maybe, yeah, Laffy Taffy. I mean, Bazooko Joe has a joke as well. Okay. So there's a, There's a comic strip and then there's a joke usually at the bottom of the comic strip.

Something amazing is happening. I just want to point out. This is our first show being produced by our new producer. Someone you know and love audience, Christian Dwaynez. Hi, Christian. Welcome aboard, Christian Dweynez. We're so happy to have you here. And he is listening to what we say.

Which is weird already. That's already a little confused as to what. why someone in the room with us would be listening to what we are. Usually our producers are playing ski free, and that's fine. Yeah. Watch out for that fucking Yeti, but, oh. Christian is putting references to what we say on screen, so we have them. And he has put a, you know, not a photo, but a drawing.

No one's ever photographed Mort. Bigfoot. No one's ever photographed me and Mort in the same picture. And yeah, this is a Bozuka Joe character doing like a hand-planked. on a bazooka joe go i mean this is mort this is mort this is mort it's not just any but that's mort it's more yeah it looks a very very very classic cartoon character what facebook group is it because i notice this is in facebook christian what facebook group is this uh that has this picture of mort in it it's from the page official page bazooka it's from the official joe official bazook we might

have to like comb that later for i've been just i've been wondering lately if i should delete my Facebook account. Oh look, they got Mitch there. Mike Mitchell right there in that green football jersey. It does look a little bit like Doe Boys host Mike Mitchell. It does. I think that I was going to delete my Facebook account because of, you know, the various horrible things that the meta corporation does. Right, right, right, right, right, right.

Yes. Now I think I might just delete all my friends and everything about my personal information. information, but then just like Bazooka Bubblegum and just only have an app to look at Bazooka Joe. Just so I don't miss these fucking updates. You know what I mean? Dan, how much social media do you do in 2026? You know, I've never been a big social media person.

I kind of, you know, I was really trying to not do any. And then when I was going on tour after COVID, like the first place I went, the club owner is pretty mad that I didn't have any kind of account. I didn't. Really nothing, Dan? I didn't realize how much things had changed. Sure. That you really knew that. So I did, I do have one.

To be fair, that was also what it was like before COVID. Like, you can't blame this one on COVID. Sure. I had been a while since I've been on tour, though. Got it. Okay. So I feel like the last time I had been on tour, it was not as... 2006.

It was still... It was before Dane Cook. Well, right. It was pretty early. that it started to help. Right. But it was at a certain, but then it eventually got the point where, like, that's supposed to do all the work.

Right. And I had to go on you. What do you do now in 2026? For social media media? I mean, now I basically just use it to post when I have a show. Yeah. I mean, that's the dream. That's the dream of social media.

Well, I mean, it's not effective. It would be the dream if it would work. Yeah. Yeah. I think the great revolution that's happened in the last five to seven years in social media is that Mark Zuckerberg and his little buddies figure out how to make it not effective for you to post where you're going to be doing a show. But if you hold out your phone and say something that will make people angry, then that's a good post. At the end, you can say what clubs you're playing at mom.

Sure. Spoons cause autism. Anyway, come to see me at rooster tea feathers. And bring those forks. Rooster tea feathers. Sunnyvale, California. Cockadoodle do. Do you think they still say cockle do cockadoodle do at rooster tea feathers?

Dan, do you ever play rooster tea feathers back in the day? No. I don't know if it's still around. I think it is still around. Our friend Scott Simpson, San Francisco stand-up comedian, Scott Simpson, you know, he's got that club downtown that he plays all the time. with his show cheaper than therapy. Yes.

It's a wonderful show. But I think Scott plays Rooster T. Feathers once in a while. I think he gets in the car and drives down and, you know, features for Jimmy Pardo or whatever at Rooster T. Feathers. Great. Cockadoodle-Doo! Yeah, this was the, like, closest stand-up club to us. Jesse and I went to college together. Yeah.

And as comedy nerds, we wanted to see comedy. Yeah. And the closest club was in Sunny Vale. And it was called Rooster T. Feathers. to get a ticket, you had to, the internet was available at this point, by the way. But you had to call the answering machine and say how many tickets you wanted, and they would call you back to tell you if you got the tickets. And at the end of the answering machine message, they would say, cockadoodle do.

You've reached rooster tea feathers in Sunnyvale, California. Leave us a message and let us know how many tickets you'd like to buy. Cockadoodle! Dan, do you still play like Comedy Club-ass comedy clubs, or are you doing like theaters and stuff? I mean, I basically will go wherever my agents can I don't like So will we, that's why we don't go to it. We keep asking your agents to book us places. It's, yeah, I do, yeah, mix of clubs and like, I mean,

smaller theaters that aren't like bigger than clubs. It definitely has been like an interesting, not just the social media thing, but to kind of figure out how to how to sell tickets. because I'm kind of I'm kind of in the genre of like a YouTuber is from a marketing point of view or whatever because it's like oh it's a cartoon character

and and you know and I wonder what why it would be like to see them I was doing stand-up before and I have no complaints about people coming because of Bosburgers because it would not be like anyone was coming otherwise but but yeah but then it just is like but that kind of

person usually has like a huge social media following. Sure. So it's always just, I mean, this time around the most recent last few months I've been touring like I got a publicist for the first time and that helped a ton like doing like morning shows and stuff. She says you're a really good person by the way.

Oh, that's so kind. What's doing like morning radio shows like calling into or like? A lot of like morning new shows. Oh, neat. I don't know why. I've always kind of wanted to do one of those. It looks kind of fun. They're pretty fun, yeah.

My only experience with one of the, those was one year I was working as a publicist and Doug Stanhope had been booked on a morning show in San Jose, I want to say, and I had to get up at, you know, five o'clock in the morning or whatever to go pick him up at the hotel, and it was just a different guy. And I was saying he's, and a different guy said, hey, I'm Doug Stanhope. And I said, well, with all due respect, you're not Doug Stanhope. And he's like, yeah, you're right. Doug Stanhope told me to tell somebody, but tell everybody that I was him

because he didn't want to come. Did he do the interview as Doug Stanhope? And I had to, like, call my bosses and say like, hey, listen, I told the guy, I was like, stay here, sit to have a seat. I'm going to make a quick phone call. I went and called my bosses and was like, hey, I'm sorry to call you at 6 o'clock in the morning. Let's just say that you were supposed to pick up

Doug Stanhope at a hotel, but a different guy told you that he was Doug Stanhope. Hope. And there was like, it was just a long silence on the other end of the phone. And then they were just like, well, you didn't know that wasn't Doug Stanhope, right? And it was like, yeah, I guess I didn't know that was Doug Stanhope. And I just took him down to the auto show to do the interview. Dan, when you do those, is it like, do they like set you up for your material? Is it like? No. And it's actually, yeah, there's, there's, there, there's always really, great. I mean, it's like this, but much shorter. Sure. And it's in the morning and everyone just had coffee. So it goes pretty quickly and it's pretty fun to do. But then, yeah, when people are like,

so what can people expect from your stand-up show? I'm very hard to figure out what to say. Without telling a joke that I don't want to tell a joke because there's one person there. Well, I'll be performing comedy. Yeah. Does that help?

Clarify. I mean, I wish, I just try. to like earnestly explain it and it just does not go well. Do you end up like in a green room sitting across the street, sitting across the table from like a local business owner and a city council member? I mean, yeah, sometimes it is funny how it depends on the type of morning show, but just people on different. There's like the, these two Cub Scouts and their Scoutmaster and there's a cook and there's always, yeah, different like funny characters. Like I was on social media on our friend W.combe out, Bell's social media. And it was just a video of him about to go on one of those mornings.

It was like a regional morning show. Yeah. Like I guess it probably airs in like San Francisco, L.A. and San Diego or something like that. And it was just a video of him and Dr. Pimple Popper. Wow. And I was like, this is what they called general interest programming. Like, holy shit. Let's do this.

Let's take a break. Yeah. Let's get Dr. Pimple Popper in here for our C segment. Right. And then we'll wrap it up. We'll be back in just a second on Jordan, Jessica. La, La, La, La, La, La, La. Wonderful is a podcast where we talk about things we like.

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Detective Dan Mitz Do I'm supposed to say the same thing as before You same different Whatever you feel in your heart Man detective Where are the men Help me You gotta get out plas glendie

What's the Hear me out A detective but he's a man He's a adult This guy can rent a car. Do whatever. He doesn't have to borrow money from his mom if he needs to get photocopies made. That's one of the big bummer.

You know, they say, like, it's not until you become an adult that you find out what's really special about being an adult. It's that you've always got your own photocopy money. Yes, exactly. Like your own zines. Dan Mint's well-rounded entertainer. is the name of your comedy special. Mm-hmm. I think people,

this is my feeling about this special. Mm-hmm. Look, Dan Mintz's comedy is not for everybody. Wow. Okay. Only watch Dan Mintz's special if you like 200 perfect jokes. If that sounds like something that you would enjoy,

then watch Dan Mintz's special. If that sounds like something you wouldn't like, perhaps because you like only whatever it is that Jordan and I do. Same things and then laughing at them. I will say I don't have a lot of like two roommates from college or people that went to college. Maybe not roommates. I don't have a lot of two people talking that went to college together. We weren't roommates, but we did for a while have rooms.

One of our room was immediately above. Oh, good. That's a big part of the second. So this will be you, people who listen to the show will love the show. Yeah. Yeah. You were saying this is not, you know, video of you on stage. It's animated.

It's an animated product. You know, Tick Nitaro did a really funny animated special a few years ago. And I always felt like that's what people would know me most for, that animated character. And I didn't really make sense to do kind of what TIG did or, you know, like Shorty's watching Shorties or that kind of thing. animating the jokes. I do one-liners. So I was, you know, tried to think of some other kind of conceptual things.

And I was really excited about what I thought of. And I also broke up the jokes. I didn't have to tell quite as many jokes to fill up the whole time. I mean, what's nice about this is it really ups your production cost. Yes. It really made it cost more. That was what I watched. Animated by Bentobox.

The folks that animated. Bob's burgers. That's so cool. Did you have to have a series of meetings about what real-life animated Dan Mintz looks like? Yeah, we did. There was a whole, but before we actually animated the whole special, I had Lauren, the creator, his company, like, helped me make like a three-minute animatic to kind of figure out all the designs and what's going to look like. And I do, it is interesting to, you know, I'm always like, well, this looks kind of like funny looking. Is that what I look click, like, well, it is like a comedy show.

I mean, I would think part of it is, like, and this is something you probably deal with on stage, is people are hesitant to accept jokes from, is it okay for me to say an ultra-hunk? It is okay. Like a mega-hunk. Is it okay for me to describe Dan as a mega-hunk? You can say a true fact. Yeah, that's what I run into, yeah. So people have a hard time accepting humor from a mega hunk.

And so animating the special gives you a chance to put a few warts on that perfect push. Yeah. Like when I started doing stand-up, I had a lot of kind of Ronnie Dangerfield. Like, I don't, women don't like me. And people were so confused by that. And then I would be like, I'm very attractive. Rodney Dangerfield's legendary cat phrase, women don't, hey, women don't like me. But people, I think people had a lot of trouble picturing that no one would, that anyone would not respect me at all.

Right. Right. Which was good because I found out. Your note is the Colin Powell of comedy. This guy commands respect in any room he walks into. I'm the gravitas comic. Right. Right.

Okay. There's more to life than comedy. They're like comedy, but make it cronka. But I mean, but honestly, I do. I do like that. I am pretty self-conscious when I watch myself, Susanna up, and just any little kind of nervous thing I do.

And then I was like, I didn't have to worry about that at all. Because I'm just like, yeah, don't have me to do my hands like this that I don't like. And don't, you know, I don't like that angle of me. So that was,

that was great. And yeah, they did, they did have to be like, we're not, like, we can't make him too handsome. Like,

it's like, okay, okay. I'll just trust that you think this weird-looking guy, I guess, looks like me. And you're like, but guys, you're going to give them a pretty hefty hog, right? You got to heft that up. Because they always, I don't know if you notice an animation, they have to draw the naked body first before they draw the clothes on. Right, yeah.

So that was like a big thing. My understanding was you kind of like glue the clothes on top and they get those little tabs that fold on. Yeah. Christian throwing up a little visual from the special up there. That's a handsome cartoon, Dan. I don't know what you mean. I like what they did. Yeah, it's almost as handsome as real life, Dan,

but I do think that they sand it off a few edges so that people wouldn't become too too messy to do. Yeah, you've got to be focused. That's a problem. I mean, I imagine if people are out of the club, you're going to have a hard time hearing the jokes over the sound of their reproductive organs filling with blood. Just whosh!

The whoosh. We had to like, yeah, there's like little screens you put on the crowd mics. Right. Yeah, to block out the fapping. Sure of the loud, deafening facking. Hank, did you bring the no fap screens? You're a teamster guy there? It's like a best grip, I don't know.

Union guy, yeah. The surly old guy. Hey, Union 224 fap screeners. Yes. That's fun, right? And these are jobs that are disappearing people. Well, AI is putting FAF screens on everything. It doesn't sound as good.

There's some incredible. There's some incredible. Although I will say that he did, that Dan did animate this in Croatia, just because there are some really good tax incentives on FAPS screens there. Yeah. It's basically free. The Croats, I mean, they pay you to screen fans. These Croats.

Yes. Oh, I do. Oh, I do. I've heard your stand-up comedy, Jesse. Dan, it's been a delight to have you here. I hope everyone will go check out this special because it is so fucking, we got an advanced screener of it. It's so fucking funny. Oh, thanks so much.

It's so great. And as I said, your publicist thinks you're a really nice guy. I emailed her back. I said, I happen to have seen Dan recently and he killed, so I might take that with a She replied. She replied, he is very funny. And may I also add a wonderful human being? Wonderful guy.

Well, I appreciate that, Pam. She's a very wonderful publicist. Thanks to Dan and thanks to Pam. You should tell her that more because she said that she thinks you hate her. Well, you have to motivate people. That's true. That's true. To air this.

It's to withhold your affection. Yeah, I feel like you and Judy are always doing kind of a good, good, cut, bad coffee. Dan Mintz, well-rounded entertainer is the name of the special. You can find it on YouTube. It's already the website that you go to to find out how to fix your doorknob. Sure. Why not take a break afterwards? Where do the batteries go in the garage door opener?

Yeah. You want to know. Yeah, they got Dan Mintz on there now too. Dan Mints. Christian Dweggias, the new producer of the program. Thank you, Christian. We're so thrilled to have. have you on board.

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